He said: “If I ever struggle she’s always the first thing that comes into my head. When I was struggling out in Shipwrecked sometimes she was the thing that kept me going.

“I hope I encourage other people with platforms like this to go out and use it for good, because it’s all good and well being known, but you want to be known for doing good.

“I’ve had a lot of messages on Instagram about the grief thing. I think being able to relay that message again and say, ‘look, you can go out and do things that are challenging, you can go and do things past grief’.

“I think I was quite glad that people could see it because if you look at me I’m big stature, manly-man sort of thing, so I think it’s nice.”